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Food Box Distribution Event at Agri-Plastics
Where can you find 30,000 lbs of food, 900 food boxes, 900 gallons of milk, and many boxes of a dozen eggs? At Agri-Plastics! It was a great day to be working with Volunteers of America Western Nebraska (VOAWN) and Hot Meals on the Farmer to Families Food Box Pickup Event. The free boxes contained fresh food: meat, dairy, fruit, and vegetables, milk, and eggs. Many volunteers and employees of ...
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Milk and dairy hold potential for improving nutrition of world’s poor
Milk and dairy products hold huge potential to improve nutrition and livelihoods for hundreds of millions of poor people across the world, according to a new FAO publication launched today. The book, Milk and Dairy Products in Human Nutrition, says governments should be investing more in programmes that make milk and dairy products available to poor families and that help them produce milk at ...
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Dairy farmers score game changing victory in discount milk war
AUSTRALIAN Dairy Farmers (ADF) has secured a major victory in the fight against discount dairy products with Woolworths today agreeing to raise the price of its $1 per litre milk brand to $1.10, with the extra 10 cents to go directly back to farmers. ADF and Woolworths have engaged in constructive discussions over recent months around the damage wrought on the dairy industry by $1 milk and other ...
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Report On the Dairy Market and the `Milk Package`
The European Commission has today published a report on the development of the dairy market situation and the operation of the 2012 "Milk Package". It describes the rather positive outlook for the dairy market, takes stock of the implementation of the provisions and possibilities of the "Milk Package" and outlines further considerations in view of the end of the quota system in 2015. ...
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Alfa Chemistry Testing Lab Launches Specialized Testing for Milk & Dairy: Fast and Reliable
As an experienced third-party testing laboratory, Alfa Chemistry Testing Lab regularly plays an active role in the analytical industry. More recently, the lab announces to extend its specialized testing range further to milk & dairy products for clients across the globe. Over the last decade, Alfa Chemistry’s scientific and technical team never ceases their step in developing novel ...
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Introducing The Dairy Show - World Dairy Expo`s New Podcast
World Dairy Expo is excited to announce the launch of its new podcast, The Dairy Show. Available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and online at worlddairyexpo.com, new episodes of The Dairy Show are added on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month. Expo’s podcast features a new guest during every episode discussing topics related to the dairy industry. “Without the ...
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The National Dairy Show: free stall places, best show circuit facilities
The Livestock Event’s National Dairy Show is scheduled to take a lead by offering exhibitors the best facilities on the show circuit with more free stall places and more time to showcase their cattle to the biggest commercial dairy farmer audience including international visitors. Equally, the event’s strict rules for showing dairy cows will enable fair competition and a level playing ...
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MPs Respond to Invitation to Tour a Dairy Farm
Today, the Bühlmann family of Sonibrand Farms opened their barn doors to their federal Member of Parliament Francis Drouin, along with several other Liberal MPs and staff from the Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC), for a guided tour of their family farm. Located 45 minutes from Parliament Hill, the Bühlmann’s own and operate a modern dairy farm, milking 100 cows with two robotic ...
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DGA Update: USDA Assistance Program Signups Now Open
The USDA has announced Coronavirus Food Assistance Program details. Sign-ups for this program started on May 26 and runs through Aug. 28. There are payments ($16 billion in total) for dairy, livestock, commodity crops, specialty crops and wool. Payments will be prorated at 80 percent upfront and 20 percent later in the year. Organic dairy is expected to be treated, in this context, like any other ...
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IRMM-359: New CRM for bacterial enterotoxin A (SEA) in cheese
The JRC has developed and released the first CRMs for testing whether a naturally-occurring toxin, enterotoxin A (SEA), is present in cheese. The new CRMs will improve the reliability of measuring SEA in cheese at sub nanogram/gram levels. This work was performed in close collaboration with the European Union Reference Laboratory (EURL) for Coagulase-Positive Staphylococci, hosted by the French ...
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Association of Robotic Milkers meeting: Livestock Event, Thurs 3 Jul
Plans for a new collaborative group of dairy producers with robot milking systems are underway to enable them to exploit the new technology more readily, share best practice and ensure a positive public image. Called the Association of Robotic Milkers (ARM), the venture is being developed by a group of farmers as part of RABDF’s Foundation for Collaboration activities. The inaugural ...
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Since 2001 one celebrates World Milk day, and curiously since a year before began to descend the consumption of milk in Spain.
However, experts recommend continuing to drink cow’s milk for its nutritional properties. The recommended rations are between two and three a day in the form of milk, yogurt, cheese, etc. Professional nutritionists maintain the importance of milk and dairy consumption in order to achieve a healthy and level diet. Milk is a great source of calcium that is easily absorbed by our organism. It ...
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Innovative new virtual reality website goes live FarmFood360° now online
Canadians looking for the real story about their food can get it directly from the source online with virtual visits to farms and processing plants. Farm & Food Care is proud to present its latest national outreach initiative – FarmFood360°. Using 360 cameras and virtual reality technology, the new FarmFood360° website gives Canadians the chance to tour real, working farms ...
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Biotechnologies should benefit poor farmers in poor countries
The focus of modern and conventional biotechnologies should be redirected so as to benefit poor farmers in poor countries and not only rich farmers in rich countries, FAO said today. 'Modern and conventional biotechnologies provide potent tools for the agriculture sector, including fisheries and forestry,' said Modibo Traore, FAO Assistant Director-General, addressing the international technical ...
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How to improve milk collection and milk
Collection of milk from farmer to dairy is done in many different ways in Europe. One should think that collection of milk is pretty straightforward but in reality there are different ways of doing the job depending on traditions, sizes of the farms, level of automation etc. Most dairies will surely agree on the importance of receiving milk of a certain quality and that the cost of collecting ...
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Safety net measures for dairy, fruit and vegetables to be extended
Safety net measures for the European dairy, fruit and vegetables sectors will be extended into 2016. The European Commission is currently finalising the last details with a view to formally adopting the relevant legal decisions in the coming weeks as a matter of formality. The European Commission is aware of the challenges faced by European producers and to support them. For the fruit and ...
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New Sino-Dutch Dairy Development Centre to improve Chinese dairy chain
On 16 November, Wageningen UR, Dutch dairy company FrieslandCampina, and China Agricultural University (CAU), signed an agreement to establish a China-based Sino-Dutch Dairy Development Centre (SDDDC). The centre will focus on improving dairy production, safety and quality levels throughout the entire dairy chain in China by sharing Dutch dairy expertise with Chinese experts and decision makers ...
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Daimer Launches Pressure Washer For Milk and Dairy Processing Equipment Cleaning
Daimer Industries, Inc.®, the world leader in top-grade American manufactured cleaning machines, like gas pressure washer systems, quality auto detailing systems, world-class car wash equipment, and a variety of other technologically outstanding products, featuring over 700 different versions and an extensive client base spread across 240 nations globally, is now marketing the Super ...
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FarmWizard Launch new DairyHUB Parlour Control System
AGRI-IT company FarmWizard is launching a new cloud based dairy parlour control system (PCS) which enables management of multiple milking parlour systems across multiple farm sites. FarmWizard, one of the UK and Ireland’s fastest-growing technology companies and the company who provide software for Cogent PD+ , will unveil the PCS at the Northern Ireland Winter Fair next ...
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FAO expects more balanced food markets, less price volatility
Food commodity markets are becoming more balanced and less price volatile than in recent years thanks to improved supplies and a recovery in global inventories of cereals, according to FAO's Food Outlook report published today (on November 7. 2013). "The prices for most basic food commodities have declined over the past few months. This relates to production increases and the expectation that in ...
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